How annoying is the grind for skills in this game?
I played wyrm for a while helping out some friends build an island but got bored with not being able to do a lot of the stuff without spending a long time grinding skills. People have compared wyrm with h&h before so I wondered if anyone who has played both can give me some comparison
The beginning is the worst. You have to debranch trees thousand times over, tidily organize them in piles and light 'em, because that's close to the only thing you can do. But, after you've acquired the basic skills - farming, lumberjacking, carpentry, stuff like that - you can pretty much build your stuff AND gain LP to invest in new stuff. The cool thing about the LP system is that you can raise any skill with the LP gained from any skill. And, at full change & full peaceful, the LP come rolling in. It takes a while to get there, but, totally worth it.
It is, of course, best if you join a (small) village or something, simply makes stuff easier. I wish I could, but I don't wanna move from my spot - there's a cave, good qual soil, grassland, okay clay in the victinity, a hi-q water lake in reasonable distance, shitloads of trees, a river and all that. So it would be best if there were three other insane people... I've got a RL friend near it, and I've got every single skill (including black skills, but at the expense of attributes :/ ), so I could erect an idol and rule with an iron fist... um... yea...
If people are interested, I'd ferry them from the spawn point. So, yeah, officially hiring!
/e: I'm not sure on how to get the bear teeth though. Hunting bears is a little... dangerous.